Joan of Arc

Joan of Arc was a French Saint and national heroine known as the Maid of Orleans. Joan of Arcs new spirit of hope and resolution was injected into the oppressed population although some saw her as a threat. Due to being a strategic genius, Joan of Arc gathered and united a nation at a critical hour and decisively turned the Hundred Years’ War in France’s favor. It was rare for a woman to take such a position but she influenced the country through her loving heart and good sense of virtue (Michelet, 3).
Joan was born to the parents of Jacques d’Arc, her father, who was a peasant farmer and her mother who was Isabelle de Vouthon, a deeply religious woman who had a strong influence on Joan and her religion. She was the youngest in a family of five in a fairly wealthy family. While the other children would go in the fields to work with their father, their mother had Joan stay with her, and kept her busy sewing and spinning. Her mother taught her everything she knew, whic...